Carolyn Woods Eisenberg, "Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia (Oxford UP, 2023) is a compelling, meticulous narrative of the way national security decisions formed at the highest levels of governmen...
5 Apr 202354min
Rose Parfitt, "The Process of International Legal Reproduction: Inequality, Historiography, Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Rose Parfitt is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent and the author of The Process of International Legal Reproduction: Inequality, Historiography, Resistance (Cambridge University Press...
31 Mar 20231h 4min
Keir Giles, "Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
With the annexation of Crimea in 2014 as well the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia's place in the world is a matter of fierce debate among world leaders and analysts. For decades it was regarded as...
31 Mar 202356min
Eric Alterman, "We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel" (Basic Book, 2022)
Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been a staple of both Jewish and American political culture. In We Are Not One: A History of Ame...
30 Mar 20231h 1min
Rebecca Herman, "Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
During the Second World War, the United States built over two hundred defense installations on sovereign soil in Latin America in the name of cooperation in hemisphere defense. Predictably, it proved ...
29 Mar 202339min
Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right but... US Lies and Media Reporting in the 2003 Iraq War
In this episode of International Horizons, journalist and UN director of Human Rights Watch Louis Charbonneau describes the US's government misinformation campaign to justify its invasion of Iraq in 2...
27 Mar 202336min
Gordon Barrett, "China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
During the early decades of the Cold War, the People’s Republic of China remained far outside mainstream international science — right? Gordon Barrett’s new book, China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy (...
23 Mar 202357min
Present at the Creation: Edward Mead Earle and the Depression-Era Origins of Security Studies
Edward Mead Earle was a historian, scholar, professor, and international relations expert; he was also a founding father of the field we know as Security Studies. Listen as David Ekbladh and Internati...
22 Mar 202326min
